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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

As a nonprofit leader, you likely want to do your best to ensure that the voices and experiences of the communities you serve are represented in your work. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy. Advisory committees let your nonprofit work with others who want to see you succeed.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities , by ABFE and Candid  For every $100 foundations gave to the average Ivy League, they gave 56 cents to the average historically Black college and university (HBCU).

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Avoiding Unconscious Confirmation Bias In The Nonprofit Workplace

Bloomerang

It’s a universal trait displayed across peoples and cultures throughout the world, and it’s only recently that anyone has even tried to counterbalance its potential negative impact on the workplace. It’s difficult for those voices to make themselves heard unless an effort is made to listen.

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Metaverse 101 for Nonprofits

Media Cause

Metaverse is a word that carries a lot of weight these days, and it seems like the loudest voices on the topic are on opposite ends of the spectrum. Crypto was formed to create a decentralized, universal form of currency that could be traded and logged on a transparent proof system rather than controlled by governments. .

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. We reflected. We adapted.

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4 Essential Components of a Volunteer Management Program

DipJar

These tips can apply to any type of organization looking to manage volunteers, whether you’re working with a business, nonprofit, school or university, or other community organization. Sending volunteer feedback surveys so supporters can voice opinions. Addison holds a Master of Creative Writing from Durham University.

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. Catholic Relief Services uses microfinancing to create alternatives to migration, and Solace International , headquartered in Tucson, invests in social entrepreneurship. In fact, though the U.S.